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- 851: Scarface
- ... him and in turn wants Montana to continue working for him. Lopez sends him to Bolivia to work on a deal with Sosa, their cocaine supplier. While there Tony seizes an opportunity to go into business for himself. Tony shoots his way to the top of a drug crime family, killing both friend and foe alike. Finally after murdering his boss and marrying his boss's girlfriend, he's crowned drug ... woman of Tony s obsession, went from one boyfriend to another based on who could supply her cocaine addiction. In one particular scene Frank tells Tony the two key rules to success in the drug business. Rule number one is to never underestimate the other guys greed. Rule number two is to never get high on your own supply. This came back to haunt Tony because later in the movie Frank ... take into consideration that it was made almost eighteen years ago, the music doesn t sound too bad. I think Frank Lopez s first rule of how to succeed applies to every aspect of your business life. Because no matter how bad you may want something, there s always going to be someone else who wants it more than you.
- 852: Telecommunications
- ... computers will be connected via the public Internet by 2000, and even more via enterprise internets. The technology and the Internet have supported global collaboration among people and organizations, information sharing, network innovations, and rapid business transactions. The development of the World Wide Web is fueling the introduction of new business tools and uses that may lead to billions of dollars worth of business transactions on the Internet in the future. In the Internet nowadays, the majority of computers are from the commercial sphere (Vrabec 1996). In fact, the commercialisation of the network, which has been taking place ...
- 853: What Is Marijuana?
- ... else- not from the police. Marijuana is a common weed, easier to produce than the bathtub gin of the Prohibition years. It is not surprising that thousands of "dealers" have been drawn into the marijuana business. Despite the great risks they face, including bullying by other dealers and the threat of arrest, they are attracted by the profits. The law cannot change the economics of this market because it operates outside the law. All the police can do is to make it risky to get into the marijuana business. This is supposed to drive out the less courageous dealers, reduce the amount of marijuana available, and inflate prices. But even by this measure, the police effort has failed. It includes not just dealers who ... without getting caught up in a policy debate. Meanwhile, the black market would disappear overnight. Some arrangement would be made to license the production of marijuana cigarettes. Thousands of dealers would be put out of business, and a secret part of the economy would come into the open. It is difficult to say whether this change would reduce crime because criminals would probably continue to sell other drugs. Lastly, the ...
- 854: Andrew Carnegie
- Andrew Carnegie Andrew Carnegie, in 1873, decided that the future of business was in steel manufacturing. He built the J. Edgar Thompson Steel Mill in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and set forth the Carnegie empire. In 1901, Carnegie sold his Carnegie Steel Company and faithfully devoted himself to philanthropic ... made him “the richest man in the world” or so is quoted from “Paradoxical Reign of the King” written by Walter Goodman (The New York Times; January 20, 1997). Using his fortune from the steel business, he decided to give back to the world. As stated in “Andy Did It” by Harry Schwalb (ARTnews, June 1997), Carnegie gave the world thousands of libraries. Many communities gratefully accepted Carnegie’s generosity, but ... being the greatest single incentive to library growth in the United States.” Whether or not Andrew Carnegie made his money in a moral and honest way should not be an issue. He did not conduct business any different than the other industrial leaders and capitalists of his time. Immortialization may not have been one of Andrew Carnegie’s motives, but it has been achieved. His inspiration came from his beliefs ...
- 855: The Life and Times of Edgar ALlan Poe
- ... he swam six miles in the James River under a hot June sun, partly against a strong tide. Edgar obviously made a good impression on other people. Thomas Ellis, the son of John Allan's business partner once said: "No boy ever had a greater influence over me than he had." At the age of fifteen he became a lieutenant in the Junior Morgan Riflemen. As second-in-command he was ... Allan was good for about three quarters of a million dollar Edgar did receive nothing! The Messenger and Marriage to Virginia Clemm November 1834 - January 1837 Thomas Willis White, Richmond printer, began in the printing business at age eleven. In August 1834 he launched a new magazine, The Southern Literary Messenger. The magazine was, so to say, politically correct - made to be "a source of innocent amusement". Some would describe the ... the duties of an editor at the Messenger. He advised White on articles, edited copy, checked proof, took care of the typography, and wrote on his own. His work gave him knowledge about the magazine business as well as contacts with respected literary figures. Among the stories he published in the Messenger was "Berenice - a tale", "Morella", "Lionizing - a tale", and "Hans Phaal - A tale". In creating "Berenice", "Morella", and ...
- 856: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- ... prices that had fallen below the cost of production, Congress, at Roosevelt's request, passed a series of emergency measures calculated to provide liquidity for banking institutions and relief for the individual and to prevent business bankruptcy. Further, abandonment of the gold standard in 1933 had the effect of devaluating the dollar in international markets. In addition to relief measures, such as creation of the Works Progress Administration under the direction ... granary, balancing crop surplus against lean years. Creation of the Tennessee Valley The New Deal Coalition Although Roosevelt's ties to the city and organized labor were never strong, many New Deal measures alienated the business community at the same time they attracted the urban minorities and the labor movement into the orbit of the Democratic party. The National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA, 1933) began as an industrial stabilization scheme designed ... cutthroat practices and maintain prices. Section 7a of the law, which promoted labor unionization, alienated conservative businesspeople, however. Strict securities-issuance and stock exchange regulation, enforced by a newly created Securities and Exchange Commission, intensified business opposition. Benefits provided by the Social Security Act, by unemployment insurance legislation, and by the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 attracted workers' support. In 1935 and 1936 the traditional-minded U.S. Supreme ...
- 857: JFK: Was His Assassination Inevitable?
- ... not be farther from the truth. Instead, it was the result of a complex combination of domestic and foreign events. When President Kennedy was in office, he had to deal with many issues, ranging from business and finance to crime-fighting and war issues. Perhaps it is not as important to decide who it was that killed him, but why. President Kennedy's decisions and courses of action were not popular ... MIC, war is the equivalent of winning the lottery. An aggressive president who does not hesitate to go into war is the ideal choice for the MIC. The MIC thrives on war, seeing it as "business", every time a weapon has to be replaced the MIC gets richer, and the taxpayer gets poorer. The MIC couldn't care less about Americans dying in war as long as the cash is flowing ... these groups were intimidated by the Kennedy administration. Kennedy tried to find a middle road between black and white radicals. His human-rights activities earned him the hatred of all racists. And as for big business, he angered them by obliging steel manufacturers to reverse price increases, as well as introducing a tax-reform legislation that would end unfair tax practices and would abolish the profitable oil reduction allowance. International ...
- 858: Computer Viruses: Past, Present And Future
- ... and do strike any unprotected computer system, with results that range from merely annoying to the disastrous, time-consuming and expensive loss of software and data. And with corporations increasingly using computers for enterprise-wide, business-critical computing, the costs of virus-induced down-time are growing along with the threat from viruses themselves. Concern is justified - but unbridled paranoia is not. Just as proper diet, exercise and preventative health care ... deployed more broadly within organizations for a growing range of mission-critical applications, from finance and sales data to inventory control, purchasing and manufacturing process control. The current, rapid adoption of client-server computing by business gives viruses fertile new ground for infection. These server-based solutions are precisely the type of computers that are susceptible - if unprotected - to most computer viruses. And because data exchange is the very reason for ... The site is also connected to 64 other sites around the world (more than half of which are outside the U.S.). The virus had entered the division on program disks from a legitimate European business partner. One day after the disks arrived, the Hi virus was found by technicians on file servers, PCs and floppy disks. Despite eradication efforts, the virus continued to infect the network throughout the entire ...
- 859: A Report On Japanese Culture
- A Report on Japanese Culture Folkways: While most countries have business cards, Japan has taken it to a higher level. For in Japan everyone has at least one. Known as Meishi , these cards are an important part of social interactions. They are used for starting conversations ... are talking with does for a living you have an idea on what to talk about. It also allows you to be remembered after you both part company. You should always be prepared with your business card in Japan. Another custom in Japan is gift giving. Gifts are given and received at any possible occasion in Japan. It is a way to show appreciation and is viewed as the thing to ... fifteen, while the requirement for drinking is twenty. Taboos: Wearing any type of shoes while walking into someone s home is considered a sin in Japan. It is even restricted in the case of some business establishments, and other places. The rule of conduct in these cases is that you must leave your footwear at the door, and put on the slippers supplied just inside the doorway. The types of ...
- 860: Theodore Roosevelt
- ... vigorous courses of action be delayed by Congress’ debate. One of the progressive uses Roosevelt made of his office throughout his adminisTheodore Rooseveltation was “Theodore Rooseveltust-busting.” In the decade before he rose to power, business had been left alone, despite the Sherman anti-Theodore Rooseveltust law. This 1890 law was supposed to prevent corporations from consolidating to form monopolies on their indusTheodore Roosevelties, but it had been wildly ineffective. In ... objection to consolidation for preventing “ruinous” competition (Blum 37). Roosevelt, concerned with equal Theodore Roosevelteatment for all, only was opposed to monopolies designed to stifle all competition. This was the first time government effectively regulated business. A celebrated story of Roosevelt decisiveness comes from the 1902 Anthracite Coal sTheodore Rooseveltike. 50,000 United Mine Workers of northern Pennsylvania walked out in May, demanding a 10-20% raise, recognition of their union ... Roosevelt Theodore Rooseveltied with his vigor, and according to his sensibilities, to achieve fairness for all parties involved. Theodore Roosevelt, it may be noted, was not a wild-eyed unionist who never listened to the business side of things. He opposed labor boycotts, force during sTheodore Rooseveltikes (by sTheodore Rooseveltikers or anyone else), and unions meddling in politics (Mowry 141). On another occasion, Roosevelt sent federal Theodore Rooseveltoops to Morenci, ...
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